pbmtext Command Examples

Render text as a PBM image. See also: pbmtextps. More information: https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmtext.html.

• Render a single line of text as a PBM image:

pbmtext "{{Hello World!}}" > {{path/to/output.pbm}}

• Render multiple lines of text as a PBM image:

echo "{{Hello\nWorld!}}" | pbmtext > {{path/to/output.pbm}}

• Render text using a custom font supplied as a PBM file:

pbmtext -font {{path/to/font.pbm}} "{{Hello World!}}" > {{path/to/output.pbm}}

• Specify the number of pixels between characters and lines:

echo "{{Hello\nWorld!}}" | pbmtext -space {{3}} -lspace {{10}} > {{path/to/output.pbm}}